The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-11 00:00:00

XONEy MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. In monetary affairs to-day no material alteration is noticeable. The demand for accommodation con tinues moderate, and it has been supplied at about previous rates, namely, 61 t per cent. for the best Commercial short-dated paper. The dividends on Consols, &c., are now in course of payment, and their effect has been to increase the available balances of the joint-stock and private firms, who are competing for the business brought forward ; but the future seems to be regarded with doubt, as the belief is very prevalent that shipments of gold 11 1 30 a a large scale will be made to the Brazils. A further sum of £14,000 in gold was withdrawn from the Bank on Saturday. Trade in the manufacturing districts during the Past week has been resumed after the holidays with good promise. The woollen and cloth manufac turers of Bradford, Halifax, Leeds, and Hudders geld have transacted a moderate business. At Manchester, however, purchasers have evinced great reserve, owing to the late rise in cotton. The demand for hardware goods at Sheffield, Woiver larapton, and Birmingham continued brisk at good quotations. rp 'Ale half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Bank of New Zealand was held at Auckland °II the 30th of October last. The report of the directors was in every way satisfactory. The net profit for the half-year ending 30th September last a mounted to £39,523 14s. 5d., to which was added the sum of £1,668 19s. ld. balance of undivided profits from the previous half-year, making a total for division of £41,192 13s. 6d. Of this sum £27,000 was carried to the reserve, which in a little over 18 months has reached £60,000. The fourth dividend, at the rate of 10 per cent., absorbed £12,468 leaving X 1,724 to be carried to the next account. The working of the bank has been extremely successful, the net profits on the paid-up capital being over 30 Per cent. The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New South Wales was held at Sydney on the 28th of Octobe r last. The report was, as usual, uuanimously adopted, and a dividend and bonus equalling 20 per cent. per annum declared. The net profits amounted to £73,263 6s. 6d., from bad debts had been re covered £3,410 4s. Bd., which, with £3,128 6s. ld. a previous undivided profit, made a total of £79,801 17s. 3d. for distribution. After paying of dividend and bonus, £4,801 17s. 3d. was carried over to the present half-year. The London and Brazilian Bank held its half yearly meeting to-day—Mr. Cater in the chair. The report was unanimously adopted, and a dividend as recommended by the directors—viz., 17s, 6d. per share, free of income tax, and payable after the . 20 th inst.— was declared. The net profits to June last, atter defraying all expenses, preliminary, 3cc., a mounted to £13,556. The half -yearly meeting to-day was also held of the Union Bank of Australia. The directors' report Was carried, and a dividend of 8 per cent. .:r the B il months ordered to be paid upon the ° ) ° ‘ lo shares forming the capital of £1,000,000. TWo O'CLOCK. 14 4 „, t t he Paris B our s e to-day (according to Mr. - "Lees telegram ), the French 3 per Cents. were 66. 90 66.95 the \r ,"Y littl e an i mation has pervade d t h e mar k e t f or attic - 7. 414 h Funds to-day, the speculators still re chalg t heir operations, but owing to some pur en c i 9 ses i ? ° , llll ° lB have risen ft, v i z ., t o 90; 9 for transfer, in the - gl3. for account. Business has been recorded 9 —e w Threea and Reduced Annuities at 90; 21 , Ex chequer Bills, par to 4s. prem. ; India Stock 6-; India 5 per C en t s ., 1061 ; and do. 4 per e ra., 1003 14: 1 „ the Foreign Market continued dulness has el " observable. Mexican have improved to 361 ' l eek to 23; 24} ; the Coupons to 11 4 ; Spanish ah ; eB ive to 33 8 34 8 ; ditto Certificates to 131 14 1 m Turkish Consolides to 471 1. The Confed e r a t e ; ," °4ll is 38 40. In the Railway Share Market the operations ha ve bee n on a very restricted scale, and quotations rittVe exhibited less firmness. Great Eastern, Great x . Weetern, L ancashire and 'Yorkshire, Brighton, North Western, aid Midland have each receded 55., and South Eastern 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without change of importance. % 3 13 E and Miscellaneous Shares generally, are Inactive, and exhibit little variation in values. BRITISH F ITNDS--CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 Per C ent. Consols h Ditt o Account F e b . 4 91 901 1 P e r CeNnt , R educed kew 3 per C ent. Kew 3 } per C en t . J an. 1894... 91 901 I ,5 -el ° 3 5 per Cent. Annuities APer Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 -.cnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan„ 1880.. DittoDio for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. -- Dittol9oB. (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 5 et Cent. 1870 Ditto_4 per P Cent. 1888 April, 1864 Ditto ditto or 66 Ditto ditto Aug' 1864 ner Cent. 3 4 pm par Eul i - quer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & per 1 dis Ditto Imo 13 Ditto £lOO and £2OO _ I._._dis 411 k Ra gland Stk, 45 per Ct., last hf.-Yr • 235 , AIITA A nd . -.l't GOTERNMENT S ECURITIES . Ditt o SlOC k' 1874 4 emu'. t _.Ditt o 8 bit, per Cent. 1001 1)1 t r 4 Per Cent. 1888 .. 1041 but Z E nfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. D, '''' ° ,Per Cent , Jan. 1872 _ Ditt o -blonds £l,OOO 4 pm °.u•nder £l,OOO .... t ,1Y013.-EIGN FuNDS—CLOSING PRICES. r?.x:t la . A . Ditto '-, Per Cent b• 1839 and 1859 _ 88 Ilk ' ii Per Cent,, 1852-58-60 Ditt o Ditto 1863 1 dia poi Itto B„,_, 0 ~,ip 1863, £45 paid _ -18).AYTee 6 per Cent _ etlb°l.lail 6 Scrip £5O pd _ vhi li S °Per Cent, _ 04 Per Cent b ! 4° 4 5 Per Cent, 811 arll'intev.h 4 Per Cent., 1863 •14 ' 4, 2 5 per Cent Ex 12 Guilders iiatcito°/i'lew.Conteilidaied, 1 per • Cent ___— '4) , t' ' r°`fleorial Land Warrant loon f 1 ,j) 1%4 T per Cent i1,,,u1t,t0• Second Is ne • : . l'l Per Cent 81 824 .. ex- C oupons.. 2 - 31 4k Acco ' - '.. 101 100 g 1 Ditt o , unt .......... _ thzatDitto rlP°'l4 ................ Italiamaetell4t ...... ................ an 8 - 6'''t '''''' ..... _ /le l-loan PP ellt.(lSiare ana Railway) 77} MooriDitt o A Per Cent A taill — 361 k sh i,...ce°11/1t ... 1 .. ...... N. - -..upe l i al x ............ _ --, l aran„,., ' . per Cent 131 • Ditt o 2 a . ~..%•••.................. neurtiitv:Fia,d Wa_rranta D itto b ef t : r uent...... • Ditt o y rred ................ A ',Per Cent. (Hectares) Dit. ''`. %Ault Ilkui:itta ,_.,,0 .• ...... 420ePoetirtitije..n.t., 1862 851 ...... _ ,i.rnoatose 6 ...... LI . .... , Ditto, 186' 1 per Cent., En 25f bit, . - ... . • ..... Porto.,es4 (1863 ) £42 Bs. 3d. paid — Pm 1104 A er , e fidtr Cem" 1"3 Ditto 3 --- -•••••••• ....... ° " Per C - t 1866 '7 ' 9 Ditt o A E 'n• .1 I » ' . 47 1 1 1 Ditt o s ce.quat .................... 1i pm Ito o 15 Paid.... 6O 62,'3 Ditto . per Cent 1822 xSr 911 itto i Per Cent' • • 861 il Ditto 1"° —itt o 3 1860 'Ditt o Per Cent., 1859 — BBl 9i a m ,. . 5 Per Cent, 1862 0 .nan 6 Per Cent .............. $' lit an Account ki ‘ ° •;,l it j t e_ l l clicer Cent . bitt! „%eount ................... ▪O2 Dib it „! •L: MVO __ 4 btto Account ..................... ▪ 334 4. t A ? Account ........... Vl,' .Lo New Deferred 1.14 Cert. of Coup not funded -- &w„' IP, Acz;ount 1 T„,,,..., 4 per Cent. Dittoj eh 0 Per Cent. 1854 Ac t 90k 891 Ditto coon "0 6 per Cent• 1858 . . tltttot°,4l-,c,c,,ounto.ii. bitt o 6-,,,,,, d 8 , .............. • 7J 1) 1% 1;0 A 'l4ar Cent. 1862 __. o „ • 4Account ,°, 72 bittoo 4100 Bonds DitDitto Gu ar Cent. 1863 • to Lteed, 4 per Cent. lir '.o Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 • 47)15 ,4 4e1 a 3 per °put, ttto Accou nt ranch Dividnds o ' n . the above payable in London. DutJtelltes 4i, per Cent., Ex. 25f b., Per Co ' nt Ex 12 teat...' 641 1,,t 0 4 _ ~,. •, . . • ttaijau Per uent. Certific i 4 ' 9 per Cent., 1861 Ex. 25 francs.. 5 AeC°44l* • ic .... . Co nsols Di I\l c THREE O'CLOCK . tt o . °ney ...................... Q•count ................. • •• • • 91 it SHARE MARKETS.--This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOu&S. Share l Paid. Closing Business Railways. Price. clone. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,and Bristol and Exeter I Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A (A gets no div Do. B till tip e.p an.has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord, stk 8 8i 8} 8i 84 f 6 120 12141 7 7i 37 39 16 17 97 99 107 109 49 50 46 48 8 8i Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat, and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So•.th Western Man., Shet, & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do f shares... Metropolitan Midland Do New 127 128 132 133 134 136 98 109 64j 65 110 1101 73 74 107 109 43 44 1061 1061 1010 1020 49i 50} 110 ill 1 128} 1281 1i I IP 97 99 Do Binning. Sy Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kest Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds 53 64 25 t 6 103; 1031 Do York Do Carlisle orth London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock , Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welohpool Shropshire Union . South Devon South Eastern 'South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok., an dWok. Stockton 1z Darlington Do New, MG Taff Vale.. ....» Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim .Waterford & Kilkenny I West Cornwall IW. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland -Oxford ' 1)o Newport, Do Hereford BnITISH Pi Railways tktlantie Az Si Lawrence Bom.,Baroda&Cent Inc Gu. syer cent... Do. New . Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Lake Huron Do. Preference Buffalo,Brant,&Godrich p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1871 Clcutta. &S. Eastn. (Lin,) Cape Town t Dock Scril Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 P. East Indian. gm. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 2d Pret. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d Pref. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred- Gt. IndtaPenin.gua.sp.o Do. New gua. 5 p. 0... Do. January, 1862 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares - Do. New .. .... ... Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-8.... Indian. Branoh Limited Madras. guar., 5 p. c. Do. 42 p. c. Extension Dc. d 0........ Do. Fifth Extension. Nielb.Corp. 6 p. c. Bnds. Me1b.....t Hobson's Big. Do. 7 p. C. Hong. Bde. Newßrunswick a Canda Class A. and B. N.Rl.C'da6 po Ist pt bds Soinde Do. Delhi Do. do •• • Do. Punjaub Do. Do. ........ Do. Indus. St. Flo. 59 60 90 91 123 128 1 2 p 78i 7 It 116 124 126 43 45 98 100 63 64 33 St 95 954 98 100 10 14 88 39 94 104 o 74 8 (4 158 160 5 54i 21 34 pl 83 86 170 175 22 26 SIONS. Closing Price. _ 60 1041 ICS 6 I P 1 I) 6 6} 8} gi 102 104 101 103 106# )07# 1t54 Ic6f l*p 201 21# 74 26 6) 62 67 69 53 58 61 63 41 43 27 29 23 e 5 1051 107# 1 1# 1' 1 1# p, 1031 104 i 10 10i 101 101!; 93 95 86 88 i IP 104 105 98 100 14 98 57 59 3 6 82 84 104 105 1032 104 i 1034 104 j 101 l 1051 i 61 100 102 B 'clek COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. can.Uov. 6 p.e.J &July I 1877-81 100 102 104 103 2 I Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 103 1(5 Do. 6p. o. Mar. & Sept. 100 103 105 Do. Ep. o. Jan.&July. 10i 91 42 91f Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 90 92 Cape G.Hope, 6 p 0,1873 100 106 108 Do.Ap Oct.& 1880 100 109 111 Do. 189( 100 109 11/ Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 108 110 108 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 104 106 Natal Gov. 6 per cent 100 ItB 110 -••• N.B.Gov. 6 p.o.Ja.dtJuly 100 104 104 Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oot. 100 N. S.W. G ov. 5 p 3., 18uc 100 99 100 Du. sp. e.,lBfi to IG7( 100 99 100 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 994 1604 New Zealand 6 p cent 100 107 109 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. o. sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6p. a 100 109 111 S. Aus G6p.c.1673.& up lOO 109 111 Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 104 106 Do. lo 6 p.c. An.&00... 100 110 111 1101 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 jd Clifford Amalgamated.. 36 1/ 37 4 Devon G. Con.. (Tavist.) 1 57 5 685 --East Bassett (Illogan) 3O 6 5 67 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 53. fd par East Caradou ..... 2.14. i 27 28 275 East Carn Brea.... . . 3.4.0 75 8 E. W'l Russel (Tavistk.) 8.9.0 5 5 4 I Gam.&StAubyn(Grwen.) 58; 8 10 great South Tolgus.... 178 44 4 1 iG. Wheal Vor (Helston, 40 14 15 Grenville ..• 6.16.1 41 51 El ercd's-Foot . 8.12 47 39 11 in gaton Downs 4.18.0 21 31 34 Lady Bertha Margaret (lJny Lela= 9,i 19 21 Marke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 25 11 1 d New Setun l9e 90 100 - • North Downs 2l 15 11 N.Wh'i Basset (Illogan 3.1.0 24 3 North Wheal Crotty - IPar Consols (St Blaze), t'rovidence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 44 46 'Southearadon(StCleer) 11 425 135 S. Cam Brea (Illogan) — S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan ; 18.18.9 575 625 Stray Park 30.17.6 28 32 5 ramar Silv.& Lead Min. 45 5 I fin Crott 9 19 194 --- West Basset (Illogan) l5 11 12 N Ci radon (Liskeard) 5 20 22 West Seton —• Wheal Basset (Illogan) 5f 85 90 Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 20 25 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLudcott 3.0.8 11 11 Wheal Mary Ann (Lien.) 8 12 124 Wheal Beton 584 150 160 Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 23 24 235 Wheal Union 3.17 • 3 34 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 4i per cent., red. atgo per cent. pm., 105 Ditto, 5 per cent., redeemable at 10 per cent., 112 Great Western Orig. 44 per cent. pf., 97 Si North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4i per cent. rd., 103 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Kent Coast, 6 per cent. pref. B, 10 London, Chatham, Sze., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., 104 London and S.-Western 5 per cent., 105 Metropolitan 5 per cent., IUB South Eastern 41 per cent., 99} LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. North Western, 17 Nottingham and Grantham R. & G, 97i Royston, Hitch., and Shop., 137 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish, f Great Luxembourg, ill Amur and Liege gua. 14f. per anntur.,lBl Sambre and Meuse, 81 San Paulo (Bin.), gua. 7 per cent., Si Ditto (all), 20i 1* FOREIGN MMES. Alamillos, limited, Cape Copper, lim., Fortuna (lim.), 4* Mont. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 24 - I Pontgibaud Silver, Lead Min. and Smelting, 6; 7 Scottish Australian, lim., Yudananmutana of S. Australia 21 a JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Alliance tank of Lon .4.m and Liverpool (lim.), 46j f I Ditto, new, 314 2 Anglo Austrian,L6l I Australasia, 781 Ditto, new, 49 Bank of Wales, ihn., Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 7* Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 40 1 Ditto, hew, 18 Consolidated Bank, Rm., 101 / East London, lim., 74 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 23 Hindustan, china, and Japan (lint.), 311 Imperial Bank (lim.); 25 / Imperial Ottoman, 171 14 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 4* I London and Brazilian aim.), 561 6 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 26j 7 London and County, 624 q 2} London and South African, 27* London and Westminster, 83 1 2* 3* Mercantile and Exchane, lim., 14 Oriental Bank Corporation, 59* Seinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (Lim), di 7 Union of Australia, 56 5},6 Union of London, 42 DOCKS. 3.14. 6.4.0 19.16.4 London, 72i 2 MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Agricultural, 196 20 Berlin Water Works, lim., 8} 9} British Indian Tea, lim., 3 Company of African Merchants, lim., 29 Copper Miners of England, pf. 74 per cent., 21 Discount Corporatioo, Waited, 11} Geri, Credit and Finance of London, Bra., ll.glson's Bay, ra 'SHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1864. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. The trade for wheat in the country markets, held on Saturday, ruled firm, and prices advanced, in several in - stances, is per quarter. In malting barley a fair average business was transacted, and there was a slight ten dency to higher rates. Oats, beans, and peas sold steadily at full currencies. Flour was firm, and rather dearer. The continental markets are firmer for all kinds of produce, and prices :show signs of improvement. At New York the export inquiry has increased, and the upward movement in the currency continues. Small supplies of English grain were received up to our market last week. The imports from foreign parts amounted Ito 17,77 S quarters of west, 6,540 bailey, 52,052 oats, 2,392 peas, 39 tares, and 215 sacks of flour. Fresh up to Mark-lane, to-day, the arrivals of wheat, both from Essex and Kent, were very moderate, but the 'condition of the produce was, for the most part, good. The circumstance that large quantities of foreign—chiefly Dantzic—whcat have recently gone direct to the millers, continued with a sudden change in the weather, produced a slow sale for all kinds of English wheat. Most transac tions were at the rates current on Monday ; but factors would have been compelled to accept less money in some instances, had they shown any disposition to force sales. The supply of foreign wheat on the stands was by no means extensive. In all descriptions a limited business was transacted. Holders were, however, film, and no change took place in prices compared with this day se'nnight. There was less activity in the demand for cargos of grain afloat. Wheat, however, supported the advance of nto 2s per quarter realised during the better part of last week. With barley the market was less extensively supplied. Good and fine malting qualities ruled firm, at quite previous currencies. In other descriptions sales progressed slowly, but no change took place in the currency. Malt changed hands to a moderate extent at late rates. The supply of oats on sale was very large. For most qualities there was, however, a fair average inquiry, and all good and fine produce steadily supported previous quota tions. The supply of beans on sale was tolerably large. On the whole, the trade ruled steady at last Monday's currency. Peas—the supply of which was but moderate—were steady in price, and all qualities were in moderate te quest. The supply of barrel flour on offer was small, and pre vious quotations were well supported. Country markets, as well as French and Spanish qualities, were in fair average demand, at full currencies. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURB, Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 38s to 42s Ditto, old 3Bs 40s Ditto, white, 1863 42s 49s Ditto, old 4os 478 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old 3Bs 40s Ditto, 1863 Talavera, Rye— Barley—Grinding Malting 2Bs 39e Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6os 66s Brown Kingstown and Ware 6OB 66s Chevalier 66s 688 lnsh., Oats —Yorkshire and Linco Feeding 18s 22s . Potato Youghal and Cork, black l6s 238 Cork, white l7B 21s Scotch, Feeding 2OB 23s Beans—Tick 3os 328 Pigeons, Peas—Grey Maple fls 318 White ... 35s 378 Boilers 3.5s 37e Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 2BB 308 Stockton and Norfolk 27s 29s American, per barrel l9B 25s METROPOLITAN CATTLE. For the time of year the supply of foreign stock on offer in to-day's market was tolerably good. Sales progressed slowly, at depressed currencies. The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing dis tricts, as well as from Scotland, were on the increase, and their general quality was prime. The beef trade was inac tive, at, compared with Thursday, a decline in the quo tations of 4d per 81bs. Compared with Monday last the fall was 2d per 81bs. The top figure for the best Scots and crosses was 5s per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire we received 2,200 Scots, crosses, do. ; from other parts of Eng land, 900 various breeds ; from Scotland, 481 Soots and crosses; and from Ireland 90 oxen and heifers. Alt hough", the show of sheep was only moderaie, the mutton trade, owing to large arrivals of meat up to New gate and Leadenhall, was somewhat heavy. Prime small Downs changed hands on rather lower terms, and all heavy breeds of sheep gave way fully 2d per 81bs. The extreme value of Downs was 6s per 81bs. Calves met a slow sale, nevertheless prime veal was 2d per Blbs dearer than on Monday last. The pork trade was heavy, and prices were not supported. Per Ms. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 6 3 10 Second quality do. 4 0 4 4 Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Prime Scots, etc. 4 10 5 0 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 10 4 4 Second quality do. 4 6 5 0 Suckling calves, 128 to 20s 20s to 25s each. TOTAL SUPPLY Beasts Cows Sheep .. 17,360 Calves B9 Pigs . 440 , The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 2,307 head. In the corresponding week in 1863, we received 2,988—in 1862, 3,135—in 1861, 738 —in 1860, 2,135—in 1859, 2,663 —in 1858, 541 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam .... 271 .. 449 .. 310 Harlingen .... 326 .. 206 .. 17 .. Hamburg .. 313 .. • • • • . Amsterdam.... • • • • --- Medemblik • • Bremen .. •• .• •• •• Vigo 4l .. • • • Nieu Diep ... • —•— • • • • Antwerp. —'•. .• 27 •• Ostend l5 . 241 31 .. 10 Calais Dordt ........ • • Boulogne.. — Primecrs-wool d 0.5 2 5 8 P me. S' thdown do. 5 10 6 0 Large orse. calves 4 0 4 6 Prime small do 4 8 5 2 Large hogs 3 8 4 0 Small porkers 42 4 6 ; and quarter-old store pigs, FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .. 530 Sheep and lambs 6BO Calves •. Pigs — - .• - 45 -- Total .... 653 .. 1,209 —.. 385 .. 60 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1863 8 51 .. 1,066 171 1862 636 .. 2 , 2 7 6 .. .. 221 .. 1861 281 .. 36 7 .. 90 1860 .. • 573 • • 1,286 .. 276 .. 1859 491 .. 1,881 .. 275 .. 6 1858 65 • • 291 .. 185 .. A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the great metropolitan cattle market, on Monday, Jan. 12, 1863, and this day. Monday, Jan. 11, 1864. _ Per 81b. to sink the offal. Jan. 12, 1863. Coarse and inferior beasts 3 4to 3 6 Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 8 Prime Scots, &C. 4lO 5 0 Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do . 5 0 6 6 Prime Southdown do. .. 5 8 510 Lambs Large coarse calves Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 6 4 8 Beasts Sheep and lambs Calves rigs SUPPLIES ON SAL; Jan l3, 1862.—Beasts, 4,460 — sheep, 17,450—calves, 86—pigs, 440. Jan. 14, 1861.—Beasts, 4,040 —sheep, 19,700—calves, 110—pigs, 400. Jan. 11, 1864. 3 6to 3 4 10 4 0 4 46 4 8 410 5 0 310 4 4 46 5 0 52 5 8 510 6 0 00 0 0 40 4 6 48 5 2 38 4 0 42 4 6 NEWGATE AND LEADENUALL. Very large supplies of meat having come to hand from Scotland and the North and West of England, the trade here has become in a most depressed state, and prices gene rally have declined fully 4d per Ms. Per 81b. by the carcase. sdsd Inferior beef .. 3 2 3 6 Middling do. .. 3 8 3 10 Prime larg e do. 4 0 4 2 Do. smalldo. .. 4 2 4 4 I L n a f r e g r e i or porkmu mutton I 3 4 100 edsd Middlingmutton 4 2 4 4 Prime do .. 4 6 4 8 Veal .. 3 10 4 8 Small pork 4 0 4 4 Lamb BOROUGH HOP. We have to report a good demand for all kinds of hops, both English and Foreign, at our quotations. The supplies on offer are very moderate. Last week's import amounted to 106 bales from Boulogne, 162 Antwerp, 57 Ostend, 97 Dunkirk, 41 namburg, 93 Bremen, and six bales from Calais. Mid and East Bents.. £5 5s to £9 lOs per owt. Weald of Kents ...... 5 Os to 8 15s ~ Susses .............. 5 5s to 6 Os ~ Bavarian ............ 5 Os to 8 8s ~ Belgian ........ 3 10s to 3 18s ~ American .......... 5 5s to 6 6s BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The arrivals of potatoes by water carriage have fallen off, but the receipts by railway have been moderately large. In nearly all descriptions a fair average business is doing, and prices rule firm. Yorkshire Regents Bos to 908 per ton. Flukes Rocks , ......... 60s to 7 0 s „ Perth, Forfar, and Fife Regents 55s to SOs „ Rocks Kent and Essex Regents ...... 608 to 808 ~ WOOL. Although business in home-grown wool has not mate rially increased since we last wrote, rather more firmness has been apparent in the trade, and previous quotations have been welllsupported. In colonial wool , by private contract, the transactions have been far from numerous, but at full prices. There were no imports into London last week. __ SEEDS. Canary seed is less active, at drooping prices. For MISCELLANEOUS — Continued. International Financial Society, lim., 91 1 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 83 Joint •stock Discount, 6E Ditto, new, 61- London Financial Association, 251 Mercantile Credit Association, lim., 74 8 and Si for Money National Discount Compiny, lim., lot National Steam Navigation, lim., lf 2 Ocean Marine (Insurance), 19}; Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 79 Ditto, new. 48 Quebrada Land, Rail., and Mining, lim., 2 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, 26i Ditto (£4), 41 South Australian Land, 33& Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), Ilm., 71 Universal Marine (Rm.) insurance, 5i STATE OF TRADE. BARNSLEY, Jan. 9 —The weather throughout the whole of South Yorkshire is very severe, though to-day it is not quite so severe as it was on Thursday. The demand for coals of all descriptions, so long as this weather continues, is sure to be brisk ; and, although the London and many provincial dealers took the precaution some time ago to in crease their stocks, the inquiry at all the leading pits of this locality is large, and much beyond what collieries in some instances can meet. The tonnage sent away by railway and navigation is below what it was before the Christmas holi days. For house coal good prices are paid by merchants, ranging principally from 4s 9d to 7s 3d, the latter being the price for the best Silkatones. Malting coke rules up to 6s 3d per ton; and gas coal, according to the seam, ranges from 4s 9d to 6s 3d per ton. A fair trade is doing in locomotive and foundry coke. The ironworks of the district around here and on the Trent are doing a good business. BIRMINGHAM, 9th.—The Christmas holidays are over, so far as regarda the trade of this town. Business was re sumed at all the manufactorie s last Monda—at some of them it had been recommenced in the middle of the previous week, there being quite sufficient orders in hand in all the most important branches to render it unnecessary that the stoppage should be prolonged beyond a limited period. It is seldom that such is the case at this time of the year, but more than the usual number of orders had been given out on account of the current quarter, and, although there are very few coming in at this moment, in consequence of the travellers being off their journeys, the greater number of the manufacturers have sufficient in hand to keep them going for the next two or three weeks. The metal trades are in a most satisfactory state ; there is a good demand for mate rial, and most of the rolling mills have been on at full time during the past week. In the gun trade the depression is very great, and no indication of any improvement is visible. The artisans who are engaged in it are many of them earn ing not more than a few shillings per week, whereas a year or twe since (that is, upon the great demand for America which followed the commencement of the war) they were in the receipt of many pounds, very little of which, it is to be feared, was takeu care of for the reverse which has followed. In the fancy trades some degree of slackness is felt. BRADFORD, 9th.—There is a moderate business doing in wool, especially in bright-aired sorts, and prices have, if anything, an upward tendency. There is a very limited business doing in worsted yarns. Frames, however, are everywhere fully employed on old contracts, and spinners are extremely firm in maintaining late quotations. Ihe ex port houses confine their operations to small purchases from stock to supply immediate requirements. Offers are fre quently made below tha current quotations, but there is no disposition to yield any concession. The unsettled state of the Holstein question is an obstacle to much business being done for the German market. This removed a brisk trade, after a long interval of dullness from this cause, might be expected. There is a steady business doing in pieces. Home merchants give out some orders. Continental merchants, however, are exceedingly restricted in their operaions. There is a steady demand for America. There is a good contract business doing, however, in both plain and fancy goods. Prices, if not hardening in tendency, are very firm. DUNDEE, Bth.—The demand for flax on the spot is quiet, but as holders are not pressing their stocks on the market, prices are unchanged. The amount of business done since last report is not great, and to-day only a few sales are re ported. Every market day public sales of flax, landed da maged by salt water, are taking place, which has an injuri • ous effect on the regular trade, as they keep the smaller consumers supplied. A very large contract business has been done both in flax and tow, to be be shipped from Arch angel at full prices. A considerable quantity of Riga flax has also been sold at high rates for shipment in spring ; some contract sales have also been done for shipment at other Baltic ports. This shows the confidence of the trade in the continuance of high prices throughout the season. Some sales of jute continue to be made from day to day, both of medium and fine parcels, at about late rates, but the de mand is entirely consumptive, and spinners will not pur chase beyond their present wants. The yarn market keeps firm, and considerable transactions are entered into daily at the full prices of last market day. To day a fair quantity changed hands of flax, tow, and jute qualities. Some spin ners are not pressing sellers, as they anticipate getting an advance shortly. The demand for jute goods is keeping up well, and some descriptions are much wanted and command full prices. The finer classes of linens, chiefly made in the neighbouring districts are also in excellent request, and manufacturers continue full of orders. Home trade and also shipping houses both operate more freely than before the end of the year, and a good business was done to. day. HALIFAX, 9th.—The attendance of buyers of piece goods has not been very large this week, and the tone of that branch of trade has been rather flat. Manufacturers, how ever, keep well employed, and there is a fair amount of orders on hand for spring goods. The carpet trade is in much the same condition as the worsted, the demand not being very brisk, but the chief firms being well employed. The woollen manufacturers of the district are also working their machinery to a fair extent. Indeed, taking the textile manufacturers in the aggregate in this locality, their condi tion and prospects are satisfactory. Wools, yarns, and goods are alike frm in price. HUDDERSFIELD, 9th.—There has been rather more busi ness done in the woollen cloth market and at the warehouses this week than the last. Buyers, as well for some of the foreign houses as those of the home trade, have purchased rather more liberally than we have lately had to notice. Fair parcels of both plain and fancy coatings and trouser ings have been made up, and the promises of a good spring trade, unless they should be blighted by a European war, are likely to be fulfilled. The local wool trade is rather quiet, but prices are firmly held by the staplers. LEEDS, 9th.—The cloth halls have been thinly attended by buyers to-day, and comparatively little business was done. The winterly character of the weather has appa- - . rently checked operations in spring goods—and very little is doing either at the warehouses or in the public markets in heavy fabrics, the retail dealers and tailors having suffi cient in stock to meet any demand which may be excited by the prevailing low temperature. The goods which were sold to-day were of a miscellaneous nature,for they included some light fabrics for spring and summer, a few heavy cloths, some tweeds, and a moderate proportion or ordinary blacks. The manufacturers of heavy goods in the neigh bourhood are rather slack, but those whose trade is chiefly in light and medium productions are busy. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Jan. 11.—Wind this day at noon—East; moderate breeze, and fine weather. CARDIFF, Jan. B.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—St. Elmo, for Bilboa. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 9.—Arrived—William and Joseph, from Troon for Demerara, leaky. Sailed—Julia, for St. John's. SWANSEA, Jan. 9.—Wind MR—Sailed—Mary Ann Johnson, for Caldera. SulinguLAND, Jan. 9.—Wind N.W.—Sailed — Roy al Mint, for Silanghai—Chanticleer, for Hong Kong—Cimes, for Bombay. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 10.—Wind N.E.—Royal Arch, from Nassau—Australasian, screw steamer, from New York — Syrian, screw steamer, from Alexandria, Sailed—Vivid, for Nassau. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRA.PH.) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Arrived, Jan 10—Countess of Leicester and Ellen, from Guernsey ; Water Lily, from Rouen; Sophia, from Gothen burg; Jane, from St. Michael's; Furet, from Gravelines. DEAL, Monday Morning. Passed—Egeratila, for Nassau; Era, for Saleombe ; Hel lendrina, for Syra ; Annie Bolton, for Port Phillip; Mar garet, for Trinidad ; Asia, for St. Michael's ; Giuseppe Bac carich, for Cardiff; Peri, for St. Michael's; Mystery, for Otago all from London ; Mary Fleming, ship, from Car thagena, for the north. Sailed—Mars and Campbell, with most cf the outward bound. TIMES AND TITES.—The immediate ef f ect of severe cold upon the public health has been very clearly indicated in the figures collected by the Registrar- General: it is seen in the great increase of respiratory affections, end an enhanced mortality amongst persons of advanced age. The cold weather that has just declared itself is, however, pronounced by some of those who profeso to be capable of forming opinions on this difficult and un certain subject, as likely to be continuous as well as in tense. We are threatened, in fact, with a recurrence of a winter such as that of 1813-14—a season of severe and en during frost. If this prognostication should be verified, it will afford occasion for a medical study of much interest and impor tance. It has been stated by competent observers, that the effect of such a season has been to bring about a change in the typo of disease. Lately, London has suffered under a pre valence of epidemic disease of low type ; and even ordinary diseases have for some years shown asthenic characters, which are said to differ very widely from the characters ob served by our fathers. Periods of cold have been considered to destroy this asthenic type of disease ; and in this way it is said that changes of doctrines in therapeutics, such as the adoption or rejection of the practice of venesection, may be satisfactorily explained. It remains to be seen whether the present season will afford occasion for carrying out this important inquiry. If we should have a long and very cold winter, the attention of practitioners will be profitably di rected towards the study of the type of disease as presented during the period of frost and subsequent to its cessation, — no Lancet. other seeds the trade is in a change has taken plflce in thi slowly at our quotations. Turntp,White,p.bus.lls to 14s sluggish state, but no materia A currency. Cakes move off SWede —s —s Mustard, Brown los 13s White. Tares, Spring....4s Od 4s 6d Carraway 22s 26i Coriander l2s 16s Hempseed, per qr 408 42s Linseed,Eng.sowing 72s 748 Crushing 66s 70s . . Old per quarter - s —s Cbnary, per quarter 52s Us Rye grass, new 22s 24s Clover, Red Eng., et. —s —s White —s —s Baltic — —s —s Odessa —s —s Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s English £9 lOs XlO —s Foreign £9los £lO les Rape Cakes,p ton.C6 Os £6 10s Rapeseed t new,pr qr 61s fibs Foreign Red 33s 46s White 50s 64s Trefoil, new 22s 26s TALLO W. The tallow trade is rather quiet to-day, and prices are somewhat easier. P.Y.C. is quoted at 41s 9d to 42s per cwt. on the spot. Rough fat, 2s lid per 81bs. Town tallow moves off steadily, at 41s 3d net cash. Particulars. 1850. 1 1861. 1862. 1863. I 1864. Stock this day.... 41,787 74.527 52.076 , 55.925 (9.316 Price of Y.C. sSsoa to 59s 65 to 1956 , 1 t0 1 44s 05 tof 43s 9,1 to t 58s Oct 59s 9d —s Od —s d 00s Od Delivery lastweek 2,861 1,619 2,167 1, F 56 1,759 Ditto from June 1 53,912 56,933 86,529 51, 4 57 41,883 Arrivals last week 690 514 931 2,956 1,0.3 Ditto from June 1 83,618 101,366 81,844 69,173 76,352 Price of Town 60s 3d 61s 91 50s Oct 46s Gd 43s 91 The Condemned Convict Samuel Wright. This morning Mr. F. Doniton, M.P. for Lam beth, and a deputation of the working men of Southwark had an interview with Sir G. Grey, for the purpose of urging a reprieve for the convict Samuel Wright, whoEe execution is fixed for to morrow morning. After hearing them, the hon. gentleman the Secretary of State regretted that he could not see any grounds for interfering with the due carrying out of the sentence of the law. It is impossible to say whether the extreme penalty of the law will be carried into effect until the result of the memorial, addressed by the medical gentlemen of Southwark to the Prince of Wales, is known. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. seats, THE CASE OF THE ALEXANDRA, COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DIM. The announcement that judgment would be given in the Alexandra ease attracted a very large attendance of the public, On the learned Judges—the Lord Chief Baron and Barons Channel!, Bramwell, and Pigott, taking their The Lord Chief Baron proceeded to give his judgment in the case. lie said the present was an information against the ship Alexandra charging ithat the defendants, with others, had been guilty of a violation of the Foreign En liktncnt Act, The Alexandra had been built and partly rigged at Liverpool, and seized by an officer of the Customs For a breach of the Act alluded to. The defendants joined issue, and pleaded that the ship was not forfeitel. The information charged the defendants with every possible vio- lation of the Act as to the furnishing, equipping, &c., but said nothing about arming. The question arose, whether that established the warlike character of the vessel. It was urged that the vessel was not adapted for warlike purposes, and althought it might be used as a yacht, it was doubtless intended to be used by the Confederate States of America against a Power with which her Majesty was friendly. It was also urged that there was an intention to sell to one of the belligerents the hull of a vessel suitable for war but unarmed, but to do any warlike act whatever was a violation. His direction to the jury was that in such a case the defendants were neither within the meaning of the Act, but if the commerce of this coun try in ships, for peace or war, was to continue, and a ship left the ports of this country in a condition to cruise out or to commit hostilities, though it might be of a warlike cha racter, he should hoid that there had been no violation of statute, and that the verdict of the jury was right. This was the substance of the case between the Crc,wn and the defendants stripped of all technicalities. The learned judge went at some length into the nature of his direction to the jury at the trial, in the course of which he stated that if the ship had not been equipped, furnished, and fitted out, the case did not come within the meaning of the act, and there had been no violation of the statute. There had been no direct evidence that it was intended to arm the Alexandra in any British port for the purposes of cruising or committing hostilities ; indeed, there was no charge in the information on the subject of arming at all. He, however, left the question to the jury in the terms of the act of Parliament, and they found a verdict for the defendants, on which the Attorney-General obtained a rule nisi for a new trial. Cause was shown during term, and the arguments lasted six days. It would be natural, he thought, in the first place, to call attention to the various charges in the information, consisting of 98 counts, The first eight counts were repeated 12 times, varying the charges of equipping, furnishing, fitting out, &c., thus making 96 counts. The Attorney-General had, in fact, stated that the first eight counts represented all the rest. The charges therefore resolved themselves into what was meant by furnishing, equipping, &c., with intent. The question then arose, which was the true construction of the Foreign Enlistment Act, and what was meant by the pro hibition to cruise or to commit hostilities. It should be borne in mind that under the act the proparty was not to be forfeited unless the crime specified had been committed ; and he might remark that neither on the trial nor during the argument had any one suggested by name who had committed the crime, what he did in committing the crime, or what were the acts, and who were the persons by whose conduct the ship Alexandra had become forfeited to the Crown. If the statute made out that the defendants had done a crime, they did not want the dicta of jurists or the decisions of American courts to decide whether the case was within the statute, and no appeal to jurists or decisions of foreign courts ought to in duce the judge to declare whether or not the scope or object, the spirit and intention of the act included the case under consideration. The learned judge next quoted from Black• stone, to show that judges were bound to decide such cases according to the strict letter of the law. The institutions of the country, he believed, were never more secure than now, but he thought the country could not afford to Jose any of the grounds of security. No calamity could be greater than to render elastic such a statute to serve a special or temporary purpose. He thought the judges of that Court had nothing to do with the political consequences of their decision, or with the dissatisfaction it might create in any quarter whatever, and he could not help ex pressing his regret, not unmixed with some surprize that the Attorney-General had more than once adverted to the consequences that might arise if the judges decided that what the defendants had done, was not contrary to inter. national law, he (the Attorney-General) had distinctly stated and he had made it the foundation of an argument in another place, as it was called, the foreign nations had no right to complain of it as a violation of the law of nations. The Attorney-General said on the second that the legislature had declared that the peace and welfare of the kingdom and of the world would depend upon the decision of that court. When his attention was directed to the observation, he admitted he had gone too far, and he (the Chief Baron) really thought he had, for there was nothing whatever in the preamble of the act about the peace of the world. The learned judge then proceeded to inquire what was the real interpretation of the words used in the statute, and held that unless the alleged crime was plainly within the statute the Court ought to decline to interfere. In his judgment it was not within the statute, and that it was never con templated by those who framed the law. He thought that he might declare that it was lawful to build ships in this country even for warlike purposes. Ship-builders in this country had for a century built ships for every country in the world, and for . all . purposes. Ship building was one of the most important of our industrial pursuits, and the building of ships, even for warlike par • poses, was not unlawful, provided that they were not equipped, furnished, or fitted out in our ports, with the intent stated in the Act. Reverting to the Foreign Enlist ment Act, the learned judge said they were familiar inWest minsterHall - with the phrase "to drive a coach and six through an Act of Parliament. It would not, he thought, be difficult to sail a whole fleet of ships,through the act, so clumsily was it constructed." With respect to the rule, he was of opinion that none of the grounds on which it was applied for were made out, and that the rule ought, therefore, for a new trial, to be discharged. Baron Bramwell thought that the act ought not to be made to extend to anything which waa not clearly within its meaning, The word "intent" seemed to explain what was the intention of the Legislature, but he did not like to rely on one word. If, therefore, the word was omitted it would be necessary, to bring the case within the meaning of the act, that the vessel should have been equipped, fur nished, and fitted out. Building the ship or selling it was not prohibited by the act. He thought the construction put by the Crown upon the act was wrong, and that the direction of the Lord Chief Baron to the jury was substantially, if not verbally, correct. Interpreting the statute as he did, he had no doubt the verdict of the jury was right. Ha had no doubt the Alexandra was being built for the Confederate States to be used against the Federals ; but he did not think there was any intention to arm or equip her in the Queen's dominions. On the contrary, he believed it was intended to evade not to infringe the statute, and consequently he thought that the rule should be discharged. Baron Channell said he had come to a different conclu sion, and he held that the conduct of the defendants consti tuted a violation of the act, their intention being to equip and furnish the ship. He thought a new trial ought to Be granted on the ground of misdirection. Baron Pigott also was of opinion that a new trial ought to be granted. The Attorney-General said, as the Court was divided, he had to apply that the rule might be discharged or made absolute, so that there might be a definite judg ment on which an appeal might be founded. The Lord Chief Baron said that according to practice there might be an appeal either way, but perhaps it would be better that there should be an apparent judgment. After some conversation, Baron Pigott withdrew his judgment, and there then being two to one the rule was discharged. The Attorney-General intimated his intention to appeal. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Mr. Justice Sheo was, this morning, sworn as a judge of the Court before the Lord Chief Justice. The mandamus calling upon the Governors of St. Bar tholomew's Hospital to bhow why they refused to appoint Alderman Rose president of the hospital, was, with the assent of Sir F. Kelly, who represented the hospital autho rities, ordered to issue, so that the whole matter mignt now be fully discussed. SECOND EDITION. UN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 &CLOCK. SPAIN. MADRID, Dec. 9.—The Budget for 1864, pre sented to the Chamber yesterday, shows an increase of 167,000,000 reals in the receipts, the expenditure remaining the same. The Minister of Finance expressed his hope of improving the situation of the Treasury by realising the bonds subscribed by the purchasers of the national property. Among other new taxes is ove on passengers by railway. THIRD EDITIVN SUN OFFICE , SEVEN O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.---This Day. TA.TTERSALL'S—nus EVENING. TWO TIOtiS'JJD• sto 1 agat Fille de l'Air (taken and offered) 6to 1 agst Paris (taken and offered) THE DERBY. 12 to 1 apt Scottish Chief (offered) 100 to S agst Paris (taken) 100 to 6 agst Blair Athol (taken) 100 to 6 agst Forager (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Coast Guard (taken) 25 to 1 agst Prince Arthur (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Coup d'Etat (taken) 25 to 1 agst Historian (taken) 2000 to 70 agst Birch Broom (taken) 33 to 1 agst Claremont (taken) 33 to 1 apt Ely (offered) 33 to 1 agst Appenine (offered) 1000 to 15 agat Horse Marine (taken) 1000 to 15 agst FitzAdine (taken) 1000 to 15 agst King John (taken) RACING FIXTU: FEB' Birmingham Harrow Chelmsford l7 Nottingham Spring 1 Derby Spring 3 Liverpool Strewsbury Doncaster Spring Croxton-park 1 Edinburgh Spring .. 2 Abergavenny Thirsk Chester York Spring Salisbury l2 Bath RES FOR 1864. aUARY. Lincoln Spring 23 liungerford Ascot .. Hampton l5 Newton Odiham Bibury Stockbridge Warwick .. 1G Durham .. 28 Northampton 29 Catterick .. 30 Epsom Spring Newmarket Craven Newmarket First Spring 25 Newmarket July Carlisle Abingdon Liverpool July Stamford l4 Pontefract Manchester Harpenden 2O Epsom .. Chelmsford.. 23 New Forest Hunt 2B Newcastle-on -Tyne Worcest.r (Summer) Ipswich Nottingham Winchester l9 Southampton .. 2O Chesterfield Goodwood Bright on 2 Brighton Club ... Lewes Reading Egham Oxford .. is Yarmouth .. 23 York August 2a Plymouth Derby Lichfield 3O Stockton Devon and Exeter Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean in Australia, These celebrated artistes finished their first en gagement at the Royal Haymarket Theatre in Melbourne, on Saturday, Nov. 21. Their success has been immense—the receipts being larger than ever was known to have been taken in any anti- podean theatre. The following are a few extracts from the Australian journals : (From the Melbourne Age of Oct. 27.) Mr. and kr& Charles Kean made a second Australian appearance in the Shaksperian drama, last night. The play was " Henry the Eighth," and, under all circum stances, a better selection could not have been made to dis play the dramatic talent, and the refined artistic acquire ments of the two distinguished actors now our visitors. The performance was all so quiet, so refined, so like nature, and so unlike acting, that it was so difficult to select pas sages or points for special commendation where all was so excellent, and, if one may venture so far on any performance of humanity, so near perfection. To do strict critical jus tice would require the following out line by line, thought by thought, in all the varied expression and powerful pas sion of this beautiful and heart touching play, rendered by the one artist with perfect finish, by the other with exqui site tenderness and grace, and an elocution that was music itself. That noble trial scene in the second act, where the queen is summoned before her cardinal judges, gave an unerring proof of the righteous verdict which has placed Mrs. Kean in the very front rank of the dramatic profes sion for powerful and very refined expression of passion. Mr. and Mrs. Kean, who were repeatedly called for throughout the piece, bowed their acknowledgments on the fall of the curtain. (From the Melbourne Herald of .2Vov. 6.) The repetition of " Hamlet" at this theatre last night was received with every evidence of unbounded satisfaction by a very numerous and fashionable audience. No hurried review, such as ours must necessarily be, can render even faint justice to such a performance as Mr. Kean's. It is the seasoned product of a philosophic mind whose impulses are in direct accordance with the legislation of nature. The actor vindicates his intellectual power and moral promptings in defiaLce of certain physical deficiencies and even disqualifications. The spectator, who at the outset is not unreasonably sceptical as to the possible maintenance of the illusion, long before the first scene is over is com pelled to surrender every doubt in such respect. His critical eye and ear, which require a perfect corporeal presentment, and are offended because that is not realised, are speedily admitted to be inferior and indeed un necessary tests. Mr. Kean's personal appearance and ago become completely obliterated from the perception of the audience, who, thenceforward, solely recognise the living embodiment of their own conception of the "Hamlet" of Shakspere. That it is so, is proved by their demeanour, for seldom has the opinion of a theatrical audience upon the merits of a performance been so significantly expressed. (From the Melbourne Age of Nov. 18.) A very brilliant house assembled at the Haymarket Theatre last evening to do honour to Mr. Kean on the oc casion of his benefit. The theatre was crowded in every part, and many withstood the heat and fatigue of a stand point of view from behind the boxes throughout two long orthodox plays. The opening piece was "Henry VIII.," in which Mr. and Mrs. Kean both acted superbly in the Cardinal and the Qneen. This as followed by the "Jealous Wife." To the noble tragic display by Mr. Kean on Monday, the comic jealousy of Mrs. Oakley presented a brilliant antithesis last night. Superlatives are often rash, and in critical judg ment demand reconsideration ; but to speak of Mrs. Kean's inimitable humour and nature and sprightly grace in any thing but the highest degree would be alike weakness and sheer injustice. The scene in the first act, where all Oak ley's adamantine resolutions of independence and tavern dinners vanish before her will, and her inimitable action, to say nothing of the ever-varying charms of voice and intonation, when Oakley discloses the project of bring ing Miss Russet into the house, were in the very first rank of performance in highest comedy. We only require the ability to forget Mr. Kean's Shylock, Othello, and Louis XI. to hail him in Oakley as one of the most accomplished and humorous of comedians. Every speech, point, and walk across the stage was gentlemanly, polished, and comic propriety itself. The efforts of Mr. and Mrs. Kean in these most amusing characters kept the audience in a roar of laughter from the rise till the fall of the curtain; and an ovation of applause was the grateful reward for one of the most acceptable, and also the rarest of modern er.tertain- I ments—a well acted comedy. ALL THE PRITATE PAPERS belonging to the late Prince Consort have been forwarded from Osborne to Wind sor Castle. _ HERR MOLIQUE is engaged on the composition of a new pianoforte trio. " FAUST," BY GOETHE, has just been translated GREAT ce F rt f a G in li p T r . e — lim O i n nari S es at w u e r r d e a g y o , m a th t rou th gh e into Hebrew, by Herr Letteris of Vienna. Judges THE Chambers, to remove the indictment against King, Heenan, and the others, from Lewes Sessions into the CJurt of Queen's Bench. On Friday King, with Mr. Beard, his attorney, attended, and on Saturday the application was renewed. When certain formalities have been complied with, the in dictment will be, as a matter of course, remov ed into the Court of Queen's Bench. ANOTHER PRIZE FIGET PROSECUTION. —On Saturday last, at the Guildford county petty ses sion, Joseph Goss, a well-known pugilist, and the landlord of the Old Boat Inn, Wolverhampton, was summoned for having been engaged in a prize fight near to Woking sta tion on the South Eastern Railway, on the 17th llt.ceraber last, with one Isaac Baker. The chairman said that the bench must treat the charge against this defendant as they did against his antagonist Baker, and they ordered him to pay the expenses, £1 lbs., and to enter into his own recog nisances in the sum of £25 to keep the peace for six months. MARLBOROUGH-STREET . CAPTURE OF A GANG OF NOTORIOUS SHA RPERS.— Four men, who gave the names of Charles Wilmot, of Wormley, near Bristol, egg merchant ; John Mills, Thet ford, farmer ; George Towers, 50, Bookham-street, Iloaton, jeweller ; and Henry Francis, of 12, Pond-place, Fulham road, servant, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with de frauding Wm. Loynes, footman at 7, Seamore-place, May fair, of the sum of £lO los., at the Old Carved Lion public house, South-street, St. James's. William Loynes, footman to Lady Grey, said—On Satur day afternoon I was on my way home from the Serpentine, where 1 had been skating, when Francis asked me to oblige him with a light. I did so, and he appeared very grateful, and then spoke about the ice, and afterwards asked me to take a glass with him. I refused at first, say ing I was a servant, and was going home to tea. Francis then said he also was a servant in the Marchioness of Lon donderry's family, and I then went with him to the Carved Lion public-house in South-street, and he had not been there more than a minute when Mills came in, and pre tended he was a farmer from the country, farming 300 acres. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Had he not a rich uncle in London who had just died? (Laughter.) Loynes—He said he had £3OO, and that he had given a man who had shown him about London £1 to get changed, but after waiting at the corner of a street for one hour, the man had not come back and therefore he had come in to get a warm. Mills then asked Francis to take a glass, but Francis said that he did not wish to impose on good nature and he would toss him for a glass. They then tossed, I being the referee. Mills won, and they then commenced betting, and at this time I found Wilmot in the room and he joined in the betting. They then spoke about my albert chain, Mills saying it was not gold but brass. Francis and Wilmot then bet a sovereign to Mills' sovereign about the chain. I was told to pledge it to see, and if gold, Francis and Wilmot said I should have part of the money. I went, to a pawnbroker's in Gilbert-street and pledged it for £1 15s and showed Wilmot, who was waiting outside, the ticket on which the chain was described as gold. On going back to the house and showing the ticket to the others, Towers, who had not spoken before, got up and said he was a disinterested person, and that it was a drawn bet. They then all com menced betting, and as Francis told me I was sure to win, I risked my £1 15s, and lost. Towers then persuaded me to go and get more money, and I did get £8 10s, and went back and lost that too. Wilmot then left the house with me and tried to get away; but, having an idea that I had been amongst sharpers, I stuck to him, and on his jumping into a cab I jumped in after him, and told the driver to drive to the police office. I afterwards charged him with de frauding me, but he wanted to charge me. I afterwards, in consequence of information got from the police, went to Vine-street, and saw the others, and they offered to give me my money back. They had then got my money upon them. All I want is my money back. By Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, who appeared for all the prisoners but Mills—l was to have a share of the winnings. The others said that " they had a flat in Mills, the farmer, and that I should share in the winnings. The game was " Head or Tail," and the farmer was to throw. I signalled twice to the others what Mills put down, whether " head" or " tail," and I was to share the winnings. I expected my money back, and a share of what they won of Mills. That was after I fetched the £8 10s. By Mr, Lewis, jun., for Mills—lt was either a half penny or penny thrown up. I only saw on two occasions whether it was" head" or " tail." It did not toss. I betted, and would have won it I could, and have taken the money. I made no complaint when I lost the £1 15s. and 10s., because I was told I should win it back and then went for more. I deposited £8 with Francis, and the others gave something to Francis, apparently an equal amount. I could not make out how they were tossing, but I lost my money, and Francis handed the money to Mills. There was lots of cheating going. Sometimes they tossed with two coins instead of one. Evidence of the taking the prisoners into custody having been given by Sergeant Hornblow, 24 B. Mr. Edward Lewis addressed the magistrate for his clients. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the question was whether they were not guilty of conspiring to defraud, and he should remand them that inquiries might be made respecting them. The prisoners, it is stated, have various aliases. Remanded, and bail refused. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market firm. Sales, probably 4,000 bales or more. Import, 2,74 o—previously, 1,160. ACCIDENT TO A HORSE IN A TURKISH BATH —A WARNING.—A correspondent in a Dublin contemporary says :—On Wednesday last the coachman at Carysfort House, hearing a disturbance in the bath, in which there was a horse, opened the door. The animal showed great uneasiness, and with difficulty was got out, on which be was seized with violent convulsions, threw himself down in stall and stable, and, in this way, rolling himself over and over, made his way into the yard, where he was secured and prevented from destroying himself by the combined efforts of about a dozen men. The impression which was produced was that he was seized with madness. Mr. Urquhart, happening to be there at the time, and being sum moned, pronounced at once the case to be one of asphyxia. On inspecting the bath this was confirmed,the air entering only under the door, and co reaching the furnace below. The horse had been in 2t hours, at a temperature from 180 to 190 deg. This was the first bath for horses constructed on Mr. Urquhart's plan of a furnace with the draught from within, so as to ventilate by suction, and which, conse quently, requires that there should be an air passage from the highest point, and that it should be hermetically sealed below. A cow had been in the bath some days before for a much longer time without injury, probably in consequence of carrying her head lower. This accident may prove a warning against such oversight in future. This form of bath combines so much economy, both in structure and fuel, and is at the same time so much more efficacious, that it must come into use. The cost of turning a loose box into this sort of bath does not exceed £1 10s. for labour, and £2 12s. for laundry stove and sheet-iron pipes. MR. DYGE's SHAKESPEARE. —The new edition, we are assured, differs from the former as much in the notes as in the text. Such a bold and brave confession from Mr. Dyce, almost takes away one's breath. It is like an announcement that the earth is unsphered, that the tides have ceased flowing, that the Astronomer Royal entertains doubts on the laws of gravitation. It is the very last thing we should have expected to hear of Mr. Dyce. If Lord Palmerston had joined the Peace Society; if Earl Russell had ceased to believe in the Great Charter and to quote the Bill of Rights; if Mr. Dickens had made a speech against novel-reading, or Lord Westbury had laid a Bill on the table against Law Reform, we should have wonderad less, But there can bo no mistake as to Mr. Dyce's confession of previous error and present amendment. Some females suspected of smuggling goods into Dixie were recently searched by the provost-marshal of Memphis, Tennessee. One wore a bale of fine linen as a bustle. Her corset was filled with gold coin, quilted in, to the amount of 1,200 dole. Another had her form rounded out with padding made of dress silks. 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